Garment hanger



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GARMENT HANGER Filed Feb. 25, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN V EN TOR. TLoYa H. BALEY United States Patent GARMENT HANGER Floyd H. Bailey, Memphis, Tenn.

Application February 25, 1955, Serial No. 490,478

4 Claims. (Cl. 223-89) This invention relates, in general, to an improved garment hanger, and has more particular reference to a jointed, foldable type of device of this character.

One object of the present invention is to provide a hanger which is adapted to be folded in a very compact manner, while, at the same time any risk of distorting the hanger is wholly obviated, owing to the pivoted eye-connecting joints interconnecting the various members of which the hanger is constituted.

A further object of this invention is to provide a hanger which is strong and sturdy when in its unfolded and operative, position.

A further object of this invention is to provide a hanger which is neat in appearance, and is inexpensive to manufacture.

Further objects, purposes, and characteristic features, of this invention, will appear, as the description proceeds.

While three specific embodiments of the invention, are described in the following specifications, and are illustrated in the drawings accompanying these specifications, it is to be clearly understood that the embodiments described below, are given solely by way of example, and are not to be construed, in any manner, whatsoever, in a limiting sense.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of these specifications:

Figure 1 is a schematic view of a first form of the invention;

Figure 2 is a schematic view of the first form, shown both in folded and in unfolded position;

Figure 3 is a sectional view, of the first form, on line 3-3 of Figure l, and viewed in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 4 is a sectional view, of the first form, on line 4 of Figure l, and viewed in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 5 is a schematic, detail view, of a second form of the invention;

Figure 6 is a schematic view of a third form of the invention;

Figure 7 is a sectional view, of the third form of invention, on line 77 of Figure 6, and viewed in the direc tion of the arrows; and

Figure 8 is a view of the third form of the invention, showing the hanger in folded position.

Refer, now to the drawings, and first to Figures 1-4, directed to the first form of the invention. A garment hanger is shown, constructed of any suitable material, as heavy Wire, for example, and comprising four main parts; positioned, when in unfolded condition, to form, in general, an isosceles triangle, with a member extending from the vertical angle thereof.

The hanger includes, a lower straight bar 9, with a closed loop or eye 10 and 11, at each of its ends; a left angle rod 12 with a closed loop or eye, 13 and 14, at each of its ends; a right angle rod 15, with a closed loop or eye 16 at one of its ends, and an open loop, or hook 17,

at its other end; and a support member 18, having a closed loop or eye, 19, at one of its ends and a large, wide opened support hook 20, at its other end.

As is clear from an inspection of Figure 1, bar 9 is permanently pivoted to one end of left angle rod 12, by the interengaging eyes 11 and 13; this bar 9, being pivoted permanently, at its other end to the right angle rod 15, by the interengaging eyes 113 and 16. The other ends of rods 12 and 15 are detachably pivoted to each other by the engagement of hook 17 in eye 14. The support member 18 is, pivoted, permanently to the left angle rod 12, by the interengaging eyes 14 and 19.

The hanger, when in its unfolded, or function position, as shown in Figure 1, can be suspended or hung, on any support rod or hook or the like, by the hook 20, in usual manner.

When not in use, the hanger can be readily folded up in a very compact manner, by merely detaching the hook 17 from the eye 14, whereupon the various parts can assume their folded positions, as shown, in full lines, in Figures 2.

It should be noted that all the parts constituting this hanger, are attached to each other, so as to obviate any risk of losing any parts, when the device is not in use.

A second form of the invention is shown, in detail, in Figure 5. This form varies from the first form, described above, only in the way the angle rods 12a and 15a and the support member 18:: are interconnected, and interpivoted. In this form of the invention support member 18a has an eye 1% at one of its ends, and this eye is permanently pivoted to angle rod 12a by the interengagement of the eyes 14a and 19a. The other, or right angle rod has its open hook 17a detachably engaged in the eye 19a of support member 18a.

This second form of the invention functions in substantially the same manner, as described in connection with the first form, and folds up in the same manner, so that further description, on this score, should be unnecessary.

In Figures 6, 7 and 8, is shown a third form of the invention. In this form, support member 18b has an eye 1% engaging an eye 17 b and angle rod 15b to permanently pivot together the parts 18b and 15b. Further, angle rod 12b has an eye 14!) engaged in eye 17b of angle rod 15b; whereby the two angle rods and the support member are permanently, pivotally, interconnected.

In this form of the invention, a detachable means, for permitting folding of the hanger, is provided by forming the lower straight bar 9b, of two separate straight, aligned sections, 21 and 22, each with an eye, as 11b and 10b, at one end, permanently engaging, respectively, the eyes 12b and 16b and the angle rods 12b and 1512 respectively.

The adjacent, aligned, ends of sections 21 and 22, are threaded, both in the same direction, as at 23 and 24, and are held in line, so as to form the rigid single bar 9b, when the hanger is in use, by an internally threaded sleeve 25, screwable onto the two threaded ends, as clearly shown in Figure 7.

To fold up the hanger, of this form, it is merely necessary to turn sleeve 25, in either direction, until it disengages one or the other of the sections 21, 22, when the parts can be readily positioned in folded condition, as clearly shown in Figure 8.

The above rather specific description of three forms which this invention can assume has been given solely by way of example, and is not intended, in any manner, whatsoever, in a limiting sense.

Furthermore, it is to be explicitly understood that all such variations, modifications, and adaptations, of this invention, as fall within the scope of the appended claims, are intended to be covered by the present disclosure.

Having described several forms of this invention, it is new claimed:

1. In a garment hanger, a suspension hook; arms diverging downwardly from the hook, said arms and hook all bein formed from separate lengths of wire material, the arms at their convergent ends being formed with separate loops, one on each arm, the hook being formed with a loop .at one end, said loops of the hook and arms being loosely interconnected, the plane of the hook loop lbeing angularly related to the planes of the arm loops, in a manner to provide for swinging of the hook relative to each of said arms; and a trousers support bar extending between the divergent ends or" the arms, the loops of the arms extending through each other and the loop of the hook extending through one of the loops of the arms.

2. In a garment hanger, a suspension hook; arms di vergin downwardly from the hook, said arms and hook all -:being formed from separate lengths of wire material, the arms at their convergent ends being formed with separate loops, one on each arm, the hook being formed with a loop at one end, said loops of the hook and arms being loosely interconnected, the plane of the hook loop being angularly related to the planes of the arm loops, in a manner to provide for swinging of the hook relative to each of said arms; and a trousers support bar extending between the divergent ends of the arms, the loops of the arms extending through each other and the loop or the hook extending through one of the loops of the arms, said loops or the arms lying in planes related normally to each other and the loop of the hook normally lying in a plane perpendicular to the planes of both of said loops of the arm.

3. In a garment hanger, a suspension hook; arms diverging downwardly from the hook, said arms and hook all being formed from separate lengths of wire material, the arms at their convergent ends being formed with separate loops, one on each arm, the hook being formed with a loop at one end, said loops of the hook and arms beingloose'ly interconnected, the plane or" the hook loop being angularly related to the planes of the arm loops, in a manner to provide for swinging of the hook relative to each of said arms; and a trousers support bar extending between the divergent ends of the arms, the loops of the arms extending through each other and the loop of the hook extending through one of the loops of the arms, said loops of the arms lying in planes related normally to each other and the loop of the hook normally lying in a plane perpendicular to the planes of both of said loops of the arm, said arms being hingedly connected at their divergent ends to opposite ends of the trousers support bar, said trousers support bar comprising coaxial rod sections having spaced inner ends formed with threads of like hand, the trousers support bar further including an internally threaded sleeve in the opposite ends of which the inner ends of said sections are respectively engaged whereby, on separation of the sections of the trousers support bar responsive to threading of the sleeve on a selected one of the sections toward the outer end thereof, said arms are swingable about their connections to each other to collapsed positions in which they extend substantially parallel to one another and to the sections of the trousers bar, said hook being swinga-ble about its connection to said one-arm loop into a collapsed position between the parallel arms,

'4. In a garment hanger, a suspension hook; arms diverging downwardly from the hook, said arms and hook all being formed from separate lengths of wire material, the arms at their convergent ends being formed with separate loops, one on each arm, the loop of one arm being larger than the loop of the other arm and lying in a plane normal to the plane of the loop of the other arm, said larger loop being symmetrically disposed in respect to the arms, said loops being loosely interconnected, the hook having a loop at one end loosely interconnected with the larger loop; and a trousers support bar extending between the divergent ends of the arms.

References Cited-in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 958,366 Clausen May 17, 1910 l,,458 ,l l3 Sommers June 5, 1923 2,413,221 Elston Dec. 24, 1946 2,547,436 Brock Apr. 3, 1951 

